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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"personal efficacy"”.
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The Effects Of A Sustained, Job-Embedded Professional Development On Elementary Teachers' Math Teaching Self-Efficacy And The Resulting Effects On Their Students' Achievement
… program on elementary teachers' general and personal efficacy. It also explored connections among teacher efficacy and socioeconomic status with student achievement.</p> <p>Using a quantitative approach, a job-embedded professional development initiative sustained over a 2-year period with 35 …
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Acting Ethically: Behavior and the Sustainable Society
… have recently been highlighted by psychologists: personal efficacy, social influence, and internal standards. Because these three factors play a prominent role in behavior, it is necessary to examine what role they play in creating sustainability and how they may be utilized to achieve optimal …
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Religious Affiliation and Gender: Differences in the Association Between Religiousness and Psychological Distress
… including physical health, social support, and personal efficacy were included as control variables. The dependent variables were symptoms of depression and anxiety. Supplemental analysis examined clinically significant depression and anxiety. Results of bivariate correlational analyses revealed …
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Service Learning and Career Development: A Case Study in Library and Information Science
… show that career impact cannot be isolated from personal outcomes of service learning, such as personal efficacy, ability to work well with others, leadership and communication skills, or from social impacts such as commitment to service, or learning outcomes, such as ability to apply what has …
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A Cross-Case Study of Teacher Perceptions of Program Design and Teaching Efficacy: The Seaview Reading Support Program
… of teacher involvement, and teachers' sense of personal efficacy in teaching reading. A combination of semi-structured interviews, a scale measuring general and personal efficacy in teaching reading, and student assessment data was collected to address the research questions on student …
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Examining the Relationships Between Behavior Policies and Procedures, Teachers' Perceptions of Efficacy and Job Satisfaction, and Children's Social Skills and Challenging Behaviors in Head Start Settings
… perceived levels of job satisfaction and teacher efficacy as reported by teachers in six Head Start programs. In addition, the relationship between teacher efficacy and job satisfaction and children's social skills and challenging behaviors was examined. The results indicate that the quality and …
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The Impact of Collaborative Literacy Coaching on Middle and High School Teachers' Personal and General Sense of Efficacy for Literacy Teaching
… on middle and high school content teachers' personal and general sense of efficacy for literacy teaching. A variety of data, including but not limited to transcripts of weekly collaborative literacy coaching cadres, individual participant interviews, Initial and Follow-up Questionnaires …
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A Study of Service Learning at Virginia Highlands Community College and Mountain Empire Community College.
… was granted by the Institutional Review Board. Personal contact was made with school officials. Interviews were conducted in phases depending upon the availability and convenience of the participant.</p><p>Findings showed that students involved in service learning experience many outcomes. These …
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Teachers’ professional learning: perspectives and reflections of practising teachers
… and skills related to the school, subject and personal efficacy of the teacher. The content of teachers’ knowledge, however, was influenced by external factors such as policy and social changes in education. Finally, the study found that teachers learnt from a wide range of formal and informal …
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Teacher Efficacy in the Implementation of New Curriculum Supported by Professional Development
… development plays in enhancing teacher efficacy and changing teaching practices in the implementation of new curriculum. Data were collected during face-to-face, semi-structured interviews, and the analysis of data revealed six topics: the need for change, professional development and …
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Teacher Efficacy in the Implementation of New Curriculum Supported by Professional Development
… development plays in enhancing teacher efficacy and changing teaching practices in the implementation of new curriculum. Data were collected during face-to-face, semi-structured interviews, and the analysis of data revealed six topics: the need for change, professional development and …
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Integrative therapists’ clinical experiences of personal blind spots: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… lived experience of recognising a personal blind spot in their therapeutic work. The five female participants aged between 42-60 years have between two and twenty years clinical experience. Each participant was interviewed on two separate occasions, with a period of one month …
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The Association between Early Care and Education and Midlife Outcomes: The Abecedarian 5th Decade Follow-up
… experiences (Sameroff, 2009) and a sense of personal efficacy (Dweck, 2008; Seeman, 1959). The second primary hypothesis of this dissertation is that response contingent learning and being an active agent in early cognitive and social settings during the first five years of life will provide …
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A Study of the Condition of "Good Work" in Educational Leadership in Iowa
… effective communication, integrated personal belief systems, and personal efficacy. Efforts to do good work are challege by resource limitations, political mandates and accountability systems, systemic and societal changes, and subtle shift to a market based educational system, and …
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Filipino American Phenomenon: Community-Based Organization Influence on Ethnic Identity, Leadership Development, and Community Engagement
… cultural competence, community engagement, personal efficacy of participants, and critical consciousness of Filipino American youth participants. The FYA was the intended inquiry. Nineteen individuals participated in the study including founders, staff, and former FYA program participants …
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Examining Factors Related to Access to Rigorous High School Physics for Black Males: Evidence From the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009
… academic prerequisites, counselor support, personal efficacy in science, and socioeconomic status. Through a detailed analysis of data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, the research adopted a quantitative approach to examine how these variables collectively impact the …
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The Relationship between Teacher Efficacy Levels and Virginia Standards of Learning Fifth Grade Math Achievement in One Virginia School Division
… to investigate the relationship between teacher efficacy levels and fifth grade Virginia SOL Mathematic achievement. This study sought to determine the extent to which personal efficacy, general efficacy, and total efficacy account for fifth grade Virginia Standards of Learning Mathematic …
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Service learning and career development: A case study in library and information science
… the other impacts of service learning including personal, social and learning outcomes relate to the subsequent careers of the students. The major research questions of the study are: How does a service learning experience in the INIS course contribute to careers/career development of the …